UI Architect, Full Stack Web Developer – San Francisco Bay Area (Walnut Creek), CA
UI Architect, Full Stack Web Developer – San Francisco Bay Area (Walnut Creek), CA

OS X update causes MAMP MySQL server to not start

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What happened to MySQL?

A recent Mac OSX Sierra upgrade killed my MAMP!

h/t (https://juanfra.me/2013/01/mysql-not-starting-mamp-fix/)

This is actually an easy fix.  Just trash your MySQL log files.  Navigate to:

/Applications/MAMP/db/mysql{xx}/ and delete the 2 log files here.  (Don’t worry.  MySQL will rebuild them.)

They are the files labelled ib_logfile{X}

Just move those to the trash and restart MAMP!

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